Killen Trial: Day One (Update, Sentenced to the Max 60 years)

WLBT ^ | 6-13-05

[dixiechick2000]

"If you think Mississippi has changed since 1964, read this
from the Washington Post and then think again."



Good grief!
I couldn't read the entire article without losing my breakfast!


"This happens everyday all over Ms every day and it is not absurd."


And, it's been happening every day for a very long time.


"This is is the kind of crap that really gets to me.
DAMN"


My sentiments, exactly!

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for the link, onyx.
It just confirms what I thought when I
read what little of the article I could.

[dixiechick2000]

He DOES bear a striking resemblance to Billy Bob.

[petitfour]

Oh I don't think y'all have met the "squishy" threshold just yet. Close, but not yet.

[onyx]

Court is in recess. Edgar taken away in an ambulence. (Yes, I am watching Court TV).

[dixiechick2000]

Did they say what was wrong with him?

[onyx]

Nope. He's old and frail and they have a side room all set up for him... like a mini hospital, but apparently, he required additional medical attention. Court is recessed until he's able to return.

Maybe it's all dramatics, but I doubt it.

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for keeping us informed.
I'm not near a TV.

I hope he makes it through the trial.

[onyx]

I have my doubts. He looks like he might up and die. The length of the recess is unknown and here the judge had decided they'd work Saturdays too. THAT tells me the judge thinks Edgar's health and longivity are worrisome.

[dixiechick2000]

Good points, all.

I surely do hope he makes it through the trial, and there is a good verdict,
whatever that may be.
There are many folks who want this period in MS history put to bed.

[WKB]

Court is in recess. Edgar taken away in an ambulence. (Yes, I am watching Court TV




Hell it worked for MJ
So why not!!!

[Howlin]

Edgar taken away in an ambulence.

What on earth happened?

[dixiechick2000]

"Hell it worked for MJ
So why not!!!"



ROTFLOL!

If he gets down to 97 lbs.,
we'll KNOW he's working from
the same playbook. ;o)

[wardaddy]

My gut is that most folks feel like the Timber Company owner Neely talks about. That it wasn't happening.

Why there is no successful private school in Neshoba county? I doubt that to tell you the truth and would have to hear someone verify that. If true, then that would make Neshoba the exception.

BTW...in case everyone forgot.....like Mr Neely.

The troubles back in 64 in Neshoba were about registering blacks to vote and help by the Freedom Riders who were sort of in that mode between Beat and Hippies. Long haired for the time and some drugs and some free love. That stuff wasn't real well recieved in redneck country then not to mention the activism. I am going to be frank here. I'm surprised more were not killed down South. I have a friend here who was a Freedom Rider and she feels the same way. Yankee kids and their mentors coming down to rural communities set in their ways and stirring stuff up and according to her....they were pretty wild for back then. She came from the Columbia Unibersity Acid Tests program...I kid you not. Then you get all these already pissed off rednecks terrified of black voting power stirred up too.

It could have been massacres.

Which tells me that by the standards of the day there must have been plenty of decent though not necessarily racially sensitive whites across the rural South too.

Folks I knew as a boy loathed this stuff and thought the Klan buffoons.

But in any event, this was never about Integration. It was about voting. Lunch counters and bus seats were just for theatre. What folks wanted was the right to political power and many whites feared where that would lead. It's not complicated.

The benchmark for racial sensibility has been elevated and elevated over the years to the absurd point of opposing illegal immigration or disliking coarse in yer face hip-hop makes one racist too.

Nuts...back then it really mattered where one stood on the base issues....like voting. Young folks have no clue.

[WKB]

As per the reporterette babes on CTV
his Blood pressure was elevated See post 71

[Howlin]

If he comes back in his pajamas, we'll know it's a fad.

[onyx]

High blood pressure --- so the medical staff attending him decided he needed to be transported the hospital for further examination and treatment.

The jury is sequestered and have not yet been told what has caused the recess.

Something else disturbing to me. The judge made a statement yesterday to the effect that "let the chips fall where they may..." then added "y'all are making (or will make) history." That sounds to me like he wants a guilty verdict...

[onyx]

FOTFLOL! He is in pajamas... or at least I think there's pajamas beneath his robe...lol.

[WKB]

Top number was over 200
Which IS very high!

[onyx]

reporterette babes? Are we watching the same CTV?